Prof. Derek A. Paley
Director, Collective Dynamics and Control Laboratory
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of
Maryland
3150 Martin Hall, College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-5757 | (301) 314-0213 (fax)
dpaley@umd.edu | http://cdcl.umd.edu
Derek A. Paley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of
Maryland. He is the founding director of the Collective Dynamics and Control Laboratory and a
member of the Vertical Lift Rotorcraft Center of Excellence, the Maryland Robotics Center,
and the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science; he is an affiliated member of the
Institute for Systems Research. Paley received the B.S. degree in Applied Physics from Yale
University in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from
Princeton University in 2007. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in
2010 and is co-author of Engineering Dynamics: A Comprehensive Introduction (Princeton
University Press, 2011). His research interests are in the area of dynamics and control, including
cooperative control of autonomous vehicles, adaptive sampling with mobile networks, and
spatial modeling of biological groups. His research is based on support by the U.S. Army,
the Office of Naval Research, and the National Science Foundation. Paley is an Associate
Fellow of AIAA and a Senior Member of IEEE. Curriculum vitae; Google scholar profile
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1. N. J. Kasdin and D. A. Paley. Engineering dynamics: A comprehensive introduction. Princeton University Press, 2011. [Review] [Errata].
22. T. Severson and D. A. Paley. Distributed optimization for radar mission coordination. Submitted.
21. R. Mellish and D. A. Paley. Motion coordination of multiple planar rigid bodies in a flowfield. Submitted.
20. S. Napora and D. A. Paley. Observer-based feedback control for stabilization of collective motion. Provisionally accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology.
19. S. Butail, N. Manoukis, M. Diallo, J. M. Ribeiro, T. Lehmann, and D. A. Paley. Reconstructing the flight kinematics of swarming and mating in wild mosquitoes. To appear in J. Royal Society Interface.
18. L. DeVries and D. A. Paley. Multi-vehicle control in a strong flowfield with application to hurricane sampling. AIAA J. Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 35(3):794–806, 2012.
17. S. Butail and D. A. Paley. Three-dimensional reconstruction of the fast-start swimming kinematics of densely schooling fish. J. Royal Society Interface, 3 June 2011. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0113.
16. R. Mellish, S. Napora, and D. A. Paley. Backstepping control design for motion coordination of self-propelled vehicles in a flowfield. Int. J. Robust and Nonlinear Control, 21(12):1452–1466, 2011.
15. C. Peterson and D. A. Paley. Multivehicle coordination in an estimated time-varying flowfield. AIAA J. Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 34(1):177–191, 2011.
14. S. Hernandez and D. A. Paley. Three-dimensional motion coordination in a spatiotemporal flowfield. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 55(12):2805–2810, 2010.
13. L. Techy, D. A. Paley, and C. A. Woolsey. Unmanned aerial vehicle coordination on closed convex paths in wind. AIAA J. Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 33(6):1946–1951, 2010.
12. N. E. Leonard, D. A. Paley, R. E. Davis, D. M. Fratantoni, F. Lekien, and F. Zhang. Coordinated control of an underwater glider fleet: An adaptive ocean sampling field experiment in Monterey Bay. J. Field Robotics, 27(6):718–740, 2010.
11. D. A. Paley and C. Peterson. Stabilization of collective motion in a time-invariant flowfield. AIAA J. Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 32(3):771–779, 2009.
10. D. A. Paley. Stabilization of collective motion on a sphere. Automatica, 45(1):212–216, 2009.
9. D. A. Paley, F. Zhang, and N. E. Leonard. Cooperative control for ocean sampling: The Glider Coordinated Control System. IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology, 16(4):735–744, 2008.
8. R. Sepulchre, D. A. Paley, and N. E. Leonard. Stabilization of planar collective motion with limited communication. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 53(3):706–719, 2008.
7. D. A. Paley, N. E. Leonard, and R. Sepulchre. Stabilization of symmetric formations to motion around convex loops. Systems & Control Letters, 57(3):209–215, 2008.
6. F. Zhang, D. M. Fratantoni, D. A. Paley, J. M. Lund, and N. E. Leonard. Control of coordinated patterns for ocean sampling. Int. J. Control, 80(7):1186–1199, 2007.
5. D. A. Paley, N. E. Leonard, R. Sepulchre, D. Grünbaum, and J. K. Parrish. Oscillator models and collective motion: Spatial patterns in the dynamics of engineered and biological networks. IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 27(4):89–105, 2007.
4. R. Sepulchre, D. A. Paley, and N. E. Leonard. Stabilization of planar collective motion: All-to-all communication. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 52(5):811–824, 2007.
3. N. E. Leonard, D. A. Paley, F. Lekien, R. Sepulchre, D. M. Fratantoni, and R. E. Davis. Collective motion, sensor networks and ocean sampling. Proc. IEEE, 95(1):48–74, 2007.
2. E. Fiorelli, N. E. Leonard, P. Bhatta, D. A. Paley, R. Bachmayer, and D. M. Fratantoni. Multi-AUV control and adaptive sampling in Monterey Bay. IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, 31(4):935–948, 2006.
1. D. Raj, D. Paley, A. W. Anderson, R. P. Kennan, and J. C. Gore. A model for susceptibility artefacts from respiration in functional echo-planar magnetic resonance imaging. Phys. Med. Biol., 45(12):3809–3820, 2000.
40. N. Sydney and D. A. Paley. Optimal sampling of nonstationary spatiotemporal fields using a mobile sensory network. Submitted.
39. N. Sydney and D. A. Paley. Multi-vehicle sampling of nonstationary spatiotemporal fields. Submitted.
38. L. DeVries and D. A. Paley. Dynamic altitude control for motion coordination in an estimated shear flow. To appear in Proc. AIAA GNC 2012.
37. L. DeVries, S. Majumdar, and D. A. Paley. Observability-based Optimization of Coordinated Sampling Trajectories for Flowfield Estimation. To appear in Proc. ICUAS 2012.
36. T. Severson and D. A. Paley. Distributed Optimization for Radar Mission Coordination. To appear in Proc. 2012 American Control Conf.
35. S. Butail, A. Chicoli, and D. A. Paley. Putting the Fish in the Fish Tank: Immersive VR for Animal Behavior Experiments. To appear in Proc. 2012 Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation.
34. R. Mellish and D. A. Paley. Motion coordination of planar rigid bodies. In Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, pages 4897–4902, Orlando, Florida, December 2011.
33. N. Sydney and D. A. Paley. Multi-vehicle control and optimization for spatiotemporal sampling. In Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, pages 5607–5612, Orlando, Florida, December 2011. Invited session on “Consensus algorithms, cooperative control, and distributed optimization”.
32. S. Butail, N. C. Manoukis, D. Moussa, A. S. Yaro, A. Dao, C. Traoré, J. Ribeiro, T. Lehmann, and D. A. Paley. 3D tracking of mating events in wild swarms of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. In Proc. 33rd Int. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pages 720–723, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2011.
31. S. Sherman, D. A. Paley, and N. Wereley. Massively parallel simulations of chain formation and restructuring dynamics in a magnetorheological fluid. In Proc. ASME Conf. Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, number SMASIS2011-5188, Scottsdale, Arizona, September 2011.
30. C. Peterson and D. A. Paley. Distributed estimation for motion coordination in an unknown spatiotemporal flowfield. In Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conf., number AIAA-2011-6481, Portland, Oregon, August 2011.
29. L. DeVries and D. A. Paley. Multi-vehicle control in a strong flowfield with application to hurricane sampling. In Proc. AIAA Conf. Guidance, Navigation, and Control, number AIAA-2011-6478, Portland, Oregon, August 2011.
28. S. Napora and D. A. Paley. Observer-based feedback control for stabilization of collective motion. In Proc. American Control Conf., pages 3996–4001, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
27. N. Mahmoudian and D. A. Paley. Synchronization on the N-torus with noisy measurements. In Proc. American Control Conf., pages 4014–4019, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
26. N. Sydney, S. Napora, and D. A. Paley. A multi-vehicle testbed for underwater motion coordination. In Proc. Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, Invited paper, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2010.
25. R. Mellish and D. A. Paley. Backstepping control design for motion coordination of self-propelled vehicles. In Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, pages 5468–5473, Atlanta, Georgia, December 2010.
24. C. Peterson and D. A. Paley. Multi-vehicle coordination of autonomous vehicles in an unknown flowfield. In Proc. AIAA Conf. Guidance, Navigation, and Control, number AIAA-2010-7585, Toronto, Canada, August 2010.
23. D. A. Paley and A. K. Baharani. Critical damping in a kinetic interaction network. In Proc. American Control Conf., pages 4628–4633, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2010.
22. S. Butail and D. A. Paley. 3D reconstruction of fish schooling kinematics from underwater video. In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pages 2438–2443, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2010.
21. S. Hernandez and D. A. Paley. Three-dimensional motion coordination in a time-invariant flowfield. In Proc. Combined 48th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control and 28th Chinese Control Conf., pages 7043–7048, Shanghai, China, 2009.
20. S. Butail and D. A. Paley. Vision-based estimation of three-dimensional position and pose of multiple underwater vehicles. In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages 2477–2482, St. Louis, Missouri, 2009.
19. L. Techy, D. A. Paley, and C. A. Woolsey. UAV coordination on convex curves in wind: An environmental sampling application. In Proc. 2009 European Control Conf., pages 4967–4972, Budapest, Hungary, August 2009.
18. C. Peterson and D. A. Paley. Cooperative control of unmanned vehicles in a time-varying flowfield. In Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conf., number AIAA-2009-6117, Chicago, Illinios, August 2009. Invited session on “UAV Flight in Complex Atmospheric Conditions”.
17. D. A. Paley, L. Techy, and C. A. Woolsey. Coordinated perimeter patrol with minimum-time alert response. In Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conf., number AIAA-2009-6210, Chicago, Illinios, August 2009. Invited session on “UAV Cooperative Control Technologies for Integrated Defense”.
16. S. Hernandez and D. A. Paley. Stabilization of collective motion in a time-invariant flow field on a rotating sphere. In Proc. American Control Conf., pages 623–628, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2009.
15. D. A. Paley and D. S. Warshawsky. Reduced-order dynamic modeling and stabilizing control of a micro-helicopter. In Proc. 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, number AIAA-2009-1350, Orlando, Florida, January 2009. (9 pages).
14. D. A. Paley. Cooperative control of an autonomous sampling network in an external flow field. In Proc. 47th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, pages 3095–3100, Cancun, Mexico, December 2008.
13. D. A. Paley. Stabilization of collective motion in a uniform and constant flow field. In Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conf. and Exhibit, number AIAA-2008-7173, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2008. (8 pages).
12. D. A. Paley, N. E. Leonard, R. Sepulchre, and I. D. Couzin. Spatial models of bistability in biological collectives. In Proc. 46th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, pages 4851–4856, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 2007.
5. Sachit Butail (AE PhD 2012)
4. Cammy Peterson (AE PhD 2012)
3. Seth Napora (AE MS 2011)
2. Rochelle Mellish (AE MS 2011)
1. Sonia Hernandez (AE MS 2009)
Last updated May 15, 2012